diff --git a/cloud/cloud.xml b/cloud/cloud.xml
index 0b82e55..4370b65 100644
--- a/cloud/cloud.xml
+++ b/cloud/cloud.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     <type image="oem" format="qcow2"
       filesystem="xfs"
       bootpartition="true" bootpartsize="1000" bootfilesystem="xfs" efipartsize="100" firmware="uefi"
-      kernelcmdline="console=ttyS0,115200n8 no_timer_check crashkernel=auto net.ifnames=0"
+      kernelcmdline="root=LABEL=rocky console=ttyS0,115200n8 no_timer_check crashkernel=auto net.ifnames=0"
       devicepersistency="by-label"
       rootfs_label="rocky">
       <oemconfig>
@@ -39,9 +39,6 @@
       </oemconfig>
       <bootloader name="grub2" timeout="1"/>
       <size unit="M">10738</size>
-      <partitions>
-        <partition name="rocky" size="9G" mountpoint="/" filesystem="xfs"/>
-      </partitions>
     </type>
   </preferences>
   <preferences profiles="Cloud-GenericCloud-LVM" arch="x86_64,aarch64">